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a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
August 16 2016 21:43 GMT
#4001
On August 17 2016 06:35 pyrocumulus wrote:
I imagine Team Secret's failures are due more to mentality than anything.

Every time before the games at TI, DC hyped each other up. I wonder if there was someone missing from Secret to do that... + Show Spoiler +
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When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
August 16 2016 21:43 GMT
#4002
plz...

ee, singsing, pld, bone7, aui2k

Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
August 16 2016 21:48 GMT
#4003
no team with envy as a captain will win anything
pyrocumulus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States65 Posts
August 16 2016 22:11 GMT
#4004
On August 17 2016 06:48 hunter_x wrote:
no team with envy as a captain will win anything

I don't really believe that. With EE, as far as I can tell, just needs someone to mother him, in a way. With him, you need a super calm player to keep him on track, focused, and not making any EE plays. I don't necessarily think EE would make a good captain, though. His drafting isn't the best and I don't believe he can efficiently motivate teams to tryhard play to their fullest capacity.
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell.
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 16 2016 22:23 GMT
#4005
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.
pyrocumulus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States65 Posts
August 16 2016 22:28 GMT
#4006
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-16 22:36:07
August 16 2016 22:35 GMT
#4007
"Good captain" is a relative term, the only team EE has captained was top6 at TI4, after that had multiple podium finishes in international tournaments, although after taking in n0tail and Misery the team seemed to crumble internally going into TI5. I wouldn't exactly expect an EE led stack to win international events, but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see them work hard and be good enough to qualify for tournaments and post decent results. Sometimes people are so used to making fun of c9 that they forget there weren't that many teams in the world who did better than them.
pyrocumulus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States65 Posts
August 16 2016 22:36 GMT
#4008
On August 17 2016 07:35 spudde123 wrote:
"Good captain" is a relative term, the only team EE has captained was top6 at TI4, after that had multiple podium finishes in international tournaments, although after taking in n0tail and Misery the team seemed to crumble internally going into TI5. I wouldn't exactly expect an EE led stack to win international events, but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see them work hard and be good enough to qualify for tournaments and post decent results. Sometimes people are so used to making fun of c9 that there weren't that many teams in the world who did better than them.

Good points.
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell.
Shaella
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States14828 Posts
August 16 2016 22:49 GMT
#4009
EE is probably a fine captain but him in the mid position terrifies me

Like I just don't think he's the player for that position
don't tell me to provide a legend for those charts cause we already got shaella in this thread - eieio | Bulba is my waifu
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 16 2016 23:21 GMT
#4010
On August 17 2016 07:28 pyrocumulus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).


It's sort of unprovoked no? Just a dig at EE with no context or reason.
pyrocumulus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States65 Posts
August 16 2016 23:37 GMT
#4011
On August 17 2016 08:21 hariooo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 07:28 pyrocumulus wrote:
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).


It's sort of unprovoked no? Just a dig at EE with no context or reason.

I was just trying to make a response to hunter on why I don't believe that statement is right. I didn't really mean for it to come off as a dig, and I apologize if I didn't articulate that correctly.
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell.
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 17 2016 00:36 GMT
#4012
On August 17 2016 08:37 pyrocumulus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 08:21 hariooo wrote:
On August 17 2016 07:28 pyrocumulus wrote:
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).


It's sort of unprovoked no? Just a dig at EE with no context or reason.

I was just trying to make a response to hunter on why I don't believe that statement is right. I didn't really mean for it to come off as a dig, and I apologize if I didn't articulate that correctly.


I was talking about him anyway just used your response as the proxy lol
pyrocumulus
Profile Joined February 2015
United States65 Posts
August 17 2016 00:41 GMT
#4013
On August 17 2016 09:36 hariooo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 08:37 pyrocumulus wrote:
On August 17 2016 08:21 hariooo wrote:
On August 17 2016 07:28 pyrocumulus wrote:
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).


It's sort of unprovoked no? Just a dig at EE with no context or reason.

I was just trying to make a response to hunter on why I don't believe that statement is right. I didn't really mean for it to come off as a dig, and I apologize if I didn't articulate that correctly.


I was talking about him anyway just used your response as the proxy lol

oh lol sorry man
Mitochondria is the Powerhouse of the Cell.
son1dow
Profile Joined May 2009
Lithuania322 Posts
August 17 2016 11:06 GMT
#4014
The best piece of info about secret's implosion is Puppey's TI exit interview, where he said there were "too many cooks in the kitchen". Meaning that people were trying their own thing, not forming a single team identity or playstyle.

Play more Quake.
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
August 17 2016 11:23 GMT
#4015
Yeah. Puppey, Envy, Arteezy and Bulba are all known to have strong ideas about how to play the game. Not sure on PLD. It makes sense that there would be a lot of disagreement in a patch with no clear "meta".
Did you ever say Yes to a single joy?
nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
August 17 2016 22:45 GMT
#4016
I think it's best for Secret that EE and Puppey part way. That way they can be free to do what they want with the team. Both want to assume the leader role in a team, and they have the chance to be good at it. I personally don't find EE to be a good Dota player, but I can't deny that he's very influential which is a key attribute of a good captain. He's the NA version of Artstyle, perhaps with a little bit better mechanic.
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-17 23:15:18
August 17 2016 23:13 GMT
#4017
Pretty sure EG Wings DC (and Liquid too in regards to what they managed to do with 3 newcomers) have shown that one clear undisputed drafter is the way to go in the wide hero meta, and the team should rise or die by their drafter.
I think RTZ can actually just listen mostly? So EE Puppey + Bulba used from coaching might be the issue
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
TomatoBisque
Profile Joined March 2013
United States6290 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-18 01:44:17
August 18 2016 01:38 GMT
#4018
On August 17 2016 07:28 pyrocumulus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2016 07:23 hariooo wrote:
It's a pretty petulant thing to say anyway and it's made more hilarious by someone rocking a TL flair.

How is it petulant? No salt, just curious. Also Liquid has my favorite people so no matter how badly they play I will stand by them (or get my ass kicked with them).

To add on to what to spudde said (and again only responding to you because you're asking), the irony of the Liquid flair is that Kuro has a history as a choker in high pressure LAN situations, and you can even see this in Liquid's results throughout the year--Liquid overall did worse than Secret if you look at pure monetary earnings, and the overall prestige of their results is at least comparable--Secret won a major and finished 2nd in another. They did worse at TI but had more top LAN wins (all in the fall though). They made about 50% more money throughout the season (2 mil vs. 1.3 mil)

edit: supposedly (and this is just hearsay), Bulba would argue with Puppey during drafts
rip
hariooo
Profile Joined October 2013
Canada2830 Posts
August 18 2016 01:53 GMT
#4019
On August 18 2016 07:45 nayumi wrote:
I think it's best for Secret that EE and Puppey part way. That way they can be free to do what they want with the team. Both want to assume the leader role in a team, and they have the chance to be good at it. I personally don't find EE to be a good Dota player, but I can't deny that he's very influential which is a key attribute of a good captain. He's the NA version of Artstyle, perhaps with a little bit better mechanic.


One day EE will get the criticism he derserves but it is not today. Not only has he mentioned being happy to be relieved of the burden of captaincy I really wonder in what world you can look at EE's 2013-2016 career and call him a bad player.
Shaella
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States14828 Posts
August 18 2016 05:30 GMT
#4020
On August 18 2016 10:53 hariooo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2016 07:45 nayumi wrote:
I think it's best for Secret that EE and Puppey part way. That way they can be free to do what they want with the team. Both want to assume the leader role in a team, and they have the chance to be good at it. I personally don't find EE to be a good Dota player, but I can't deny that he's very influential which is a key attribute of a good captain. He's the NA version of Artstyle, perhaps with a little bit better mechanic.


One day EE will get the criticism he derserves but it is not today. Not only has he mentioned being happy to be relieved of the burden of captaincy I really wonder in what world you can look at EE's 2013-2016 career and call him a bad player.

I don't think EE is overall a bad player

I think at TI6 he was a bad player
don't tell me to provide a legend for those charts cause we already got shaella in this thread - eieio | Bulba is my waifu
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